From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: from mail-wg0-f44.google.com ([74.125.82.44]:39691 "EHLO mail-wg0-f44.google.com" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1753951Ab3CFLQh (ORCPT ); Wed, 6 Mar 2013 06:16:37 -0500 Received: by mail-wg0-f44.google.com with SMTP id dr12so7347066wgb.35 for ; Wed, 06 Mar 2013 03:16:35 -0800 (PST) Message-ID: <51372591.1090606@6wind.com> Date: Wed, 06 Mar 2013 12:16:33 +0100 From: Nicolas Dichtel Reply-To: nicolas.dichtel@6wind.com MIME-Version: 1.0 Subject: make headers_install fail when path is too long Content-Type: text/plain; charset=UTF-8; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: linux-kbuild-owner@vger.kernel.org List-ID: To: Michal Marek , linux-kbuild@vger.kernel.org This problem has probably already been reported, but I don't find the fix in a kernel.org tree and I don't understand why. Here is the problem: root@schnaps:/home/rbb/averyveryveryveryveryveryveryveryveryveryveryveryveryveryveryveryveryveryveryveryveryveryveryveryveryveryveryveryveryveryverylongpath/linux(master)>make headers_install INSTALL_HDR_PATH=/tmp/tmp/ CHK include/generated/uapi/linux/version.h make[1]: Nothing to be done for `all'. make[1]: Nothing to be done for `relocs'. make[2]: execvp: /bin/sh: Argument list too long make[2]: *** [/tmp/tmp//include/linux/.install] Error 127 make[1]: *** [linux] Error 2 make: *** [headers_install] Error 2 I see that this problem has been reported several times on the web, but I do not find why it's not fixed upstream. Some patches are available: http://git.yoctoproject.org/cgit.cgi/poky/commit/?id=53cc748b93e8af584557d6db5309c3e955182c5c Any comment/suggestion is welcome. Regards, Nicolas